8:10: Kevin Starrett with the Oregon Firearms Federation talks with Bill today. Today, we’ll be chatting about how the Trump Administration is wanting to ban bump stocks. Does the president actually have the authority to do so? We’ll discuss it.

6:35: John Casey, President of the Space and Science Corporation talks with Bill today. We’ll be re-visiting John’s book: “Dark Winter: How The Sun Is Causing A 30-Year Cold Spell.”

New data is saying that cooling is what’s really happening, despite the recent climate report claims.

The SSRC specializes in the science and plan­ning for the next climate change to decades of cold weather, including its predicted concurrent ill-effects of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The SSRC is the pri­mary U.S. advocate for national and global preparedness for this next cold-climate era. Mr. Casey is a former national space policy advisor to the White House and Con­gress, a space shuttle engineer, consultant to NASA Headquarters, and consultant to or president of several leading-edge technology start-ups.

Has technology created a greater need for crisis management? Absolutely, says Ian I. Mitroff, author of “Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age”. Mitroff argues that with better, more powerful technology we need responsibility and accountability to control it–and keep it (and ourselves) safe!

Facebook breaches our privacy and sells our information to outside businesses without telling us. Google sides with China’s efforts to enforce censorship. Snapchat’s hold on users leads some to undergo plastic surgery to improve their selfies. Social media struggles with hate speech; Facebook and YouTube ban Alex Jones’s hate speech but Twitter allows him to continue before finally shutting him down for good. And no one can guess what introducing technology into the human body – including the brain – will mean for humanity.

They are not only challenges, but they are serious problems. Indeed, they are major threats to the well-being of humanity. They are made worse by the fact that they are interconnected.

Ian Mitroff is one of the principal founders of the modern field of crisis management. Each of the aforementioned threats is an ongoing crisis that has undermined our trust in the world’s most innovative companies and damaged our belief in technology.

Immerse yourself in the magic of the holidays as you walk through a holiday wonderland. Tour breathtaking trees, that awe and inspire!

And, you can take a free photo with Santa Claus himself!!

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Bill’s Guests: Wednesday, November 28, 2018

6:35: Dave Ray from the Federation of American Immigration Reform calls into the show today. FAIR is live from the U.S./Mexico border this week, watching the situation with the migrant caravan. Dave Ray will tell us about it.

7:10: Eric Peters, automotive journalist and Libertarian car guy talks with Bill. General Motors has announced that it has slashed many jobs, including management jobs, and is moving toward the production of more pickups and SUV’s. Eric is here to talk about how the overlords at the EPA might not like that too much.

Read more from Eric, and get his reviews of the latest cars, trucks, SUV’s and bikes, all over at: EPAutos.com.

In every aspect of life, man is crossing lines of no return. Advances in science, medicine, engineering, and technology go beyond anything we have ever seen before. But “progress” in science and technology is not without grave consequences. In labs all over the world, today’s advances threaten to fundamentally change the practical character and ethical color of our everyday lives.

With his famously engaging writing style, Guillen uses captivating stories to describe the four scientific frontiers that are creating the most controversial logistical, cultural, political, ethical, and religious changes of our times.

In The End of Life as We Know It, Michael Guillen explores…

THE ROBOT – how artificial intelligence truly stacks up to natural, human intelligence – and why a human revolution is an even greater possibility than a robot revolution

THE SPY – how average people voluntarily and happily destroy our vanishing privacy

THE WEB – how an invention meant to bring us together is tearing us apart

THE FRANKENSTEIN – why our good intentions are even more dangerous than our bad ones…and how they are ending the sacredness of life

“In response to Beijing’s longstanding commercial espionage practices, President Donald Trump embarked on a series of tariffs against China earlier this year. Free-trade economists and media pundits offered dire warnings when the tariffs were announced. But as recent data have made clear, the tariffs are working. U.S. manufacturing employment has grown by 296,000 jobs over the past year, including 32,000 factory jobs added in October alone.”

The Coalition for A Prosperous America is a coalition of agriculture, manufacturing and organized labor associations, companies and individuals. CPA works for policies to balance U.S. trade, maintain U.S. sovereignty, and develop an effective national production and economic strategy.

7:35: Colleen Roberts, Jackson County Commissioner, joins Bill in studio this morning. We’ll be talking about the December 11th Fire and Smoke Summit meeting at the North Medford High School Auditorium, 5pm, looking for true public input and a path forward.

8:10: Dr. Dennis Powers, comes into the studio for this week’s edition of “What Made Southern Oregon Great!”

“The Golden Rhoten Family of Giants” by Dennis Powers

John and Elizabeth Rhoten homesteaded on Kane Creek in 1860, near what would later become the town of Gold Hill. When their children were born, they grew tall–very tall–and became known as the “family of giants.” Although mother Elizabeth was a mere 4-feet, 9-inches (but weighing 250 pounds), father John was 6-feet, 8-inches, or one of the tallest men in the Pacific Northwest–and lean. They had ten children, five women and five men. All were over 6 feet, ranging from the tallest, Enos Rhoten, who was 6-feet, 11-3/4th (really 7-feet), to the shortest, Cynthia Ann, who was a mere 6-feet, 1-inch.

But the tall-giant, Rhoten brothers (Enos, Ed, and Al) were as well known in Southern Oregon for their ability to “sniff out” gold, no matter where it was located. From Sardine, Galls, Foots, Kane, and Graves Creek to entire sections of the Applegate and Rogue Rivers, they pocket-mined every river, stream, and area that was around.

Led by Enos in 1905, the brothers discovered the famous Alice Group, or Revenue Pocket, a few miles south of Gold Hill above Kane Creek. Knowing that the highly producing Braden Mine was nearby, they used pick, pan, and shovel to find “some color, dig a little hole, and then follow it up the hill ‘till coming to the pocket.” Looking down on Gold Hill at 2,600 feet, they found it; in less than two days, they dug out 5000 ounces of gold, worth millions at today’s values. All was quickly blown in wild spending sprees.

This wasn’t all luck, however. Enos Rhoten used a system–kept secret for years–to find the pockets. After coming across a sprinkling of gold particles, or nuggets, on (or under) a slope and knowing that the trail led from above, he’d take sample after sample on both sides as he worked his way up. Numbering where each was precisely found, Enos stored them in jars and assayed out how much gold was in each one. Once he worked up the trail and ran out of particles to analyze, he headed back down. Figuring where the strike was, he would dig deep until the gold pocket “magically” appeared.

With their new-found wealth, the brothers lived extravagantly until they had spent their find. One night, they were partying in a Medford saloon. When the tired owner said he was closing down, they tossed gold nuggets onto the bar and bought it. When morning finally came, the Rhotens handed the bar back to the shocked owner. Another time while nursing a bad hangover, Enos threw all of his gold nuggets over a Gold Hill dirt street, saying that the town folks needed it more than he did. He was known as a generous man.

When a Rhoten needed money, he’d head away, search for a week or two, and return with gold nuggets in his backpack. They used the gold as money–disdaining any conversion into cash or depositing at banks–and Enos carried his around in a glass jar. After another spending spree, they would leave again for the wilds and search for another find. When the surface gold pockets became harder to find and their luck ran out, Ed and Al worked in a local cement plant and later on an uncle’s hayfields.

Enos was the best of all at locating the gold, starting at age seven when he uncovered $150 worth. After making and losing several fortunes by the 1910s, he tried farming on 160 acres in the Applegate and running a general store. Losing interest, in 1915 he headed back to gold hunting until the late 1920s. After lying sick in a crude bed for three years in his old Kane Creek cabin, Enos died from a stroke at the age of 70 in 1931. Although his last days had been spent in poverty, he died with a smile on his face, having enjoyed the life he had lived.